• Question – Have you ever been to a cave? I have.
• Idiom – Skiing is easy as pie my instructor told me.
• Definition – A mall is a bunch of stores under a roof. I can tell you it’s more than than.
• Setting – In the thick woods of southeast Louisiana, I learned the value of preparation.
• Quotation – “Block that kick!” screamed my mom.
• Exaggeration – I have a hundred cousins.
• Alliteration – Thanks to Thomas I’m alive to tell this tale.
• Words in capitals, bold or italics – NO TRESSPASSING!
• Talk directly to the reader – You probably don’t want to hear about how I lost all my front teeth.
• Exclamation – Schools out! Schools out! Summer vacation…
• Noise/Onomatopoeia – Pop! Pop! Pop! My brother was trying…
• Sentence fragments – Blueberries by the trillions.

Ending Ideas

• Tell how you feel about the event.
• Tell what you learned from the episode
• Tell what was accomplished
• Use a universal word such as: all, everyone, every day, everything, world, etc.
• Make a comparison.
• Circle back to the hook to use the same idea.